Care for FJ wet suit & booties?

  Ok all, Picked up my FJ & booties yesterday and rushed home (Tailgating al the way, Hahaha) to try them on!  To my amazement both fit rather well.  Currently, after using my chest waders for surf preching, I would just rinse them down (the place I 've been to last few times has a beach shower) then again at home with the garden hose, then hang them to dry.  Will this cleaning routine be sufficent for my FJ?  Or is there some kind of soap I should use? 

  Ok all, Picked up my FJ & booties yesterday and rushed home (Tailgating al the way, Hahaha) to try them on!  To my amazement both fit rather well.  Currently, after using my chest waders for surf preching, I would just rinse them down (the place I 've been to last few times has a beach shower) then again at home with the garden hose, then hang them to dry.  Will this cleaning routine be sufficent for my FJ?  Or is there some kind of soap I should use? 

That's pretty much all I do right now except that if I am lucky enough to have some fish slime on my wet suit I'll take a bristle brush and a little bit of dish soap to that area to make sure I get the fish stink out.

  OK, I see doing that.  Otherwise, my wetsuit may not be hanging where I put due to the huge volume of raccoon traffic I have in my area!

I usually just rinse with fresh water and let dry.  

Every once in a while though things start to not smell so pretty and since I live in an tiny apartment and keep my gear inside I rinse it in a bucket of clean water and wet suit shampoo which includes a de-funketizer.

on the booties, make sure they dry.  Often the tops fall over and the air doesnt get in real well.  Once that happens, the stench will never really go away.

I recommend more than just a rinse. Salt crystals in your suit needs to dissolve almost completely - so your suit will last longer. I suggest you soak your suit in a tub - with warm water for about 10 minutes - then hang to dry indoors (never directly under the sun).

Stick some old newspaper in your booties to help it dry faster.

I fill a horse trough with water and a tiny tiny bit of bleach and let my diving gear soak for a while. Pull out and rinse off with a garden hose, hang out to dry.
For the booties I use a boot dryer I got from cabela's. My GF laughed at me when she first saw it. After she saw how well it worked she bought one for her son and his best friend.
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  Sun? won't have to worry bout ruining my FJ in the sun, as I live in a redwood forest.  There ain't no sun right now.  Will have to make due with a plastic tote to do teh soakin in.  Thanks all.

If you do end up funking up your booties, (inevitable)

I put a couple of teaspoons of liquid bleach in each one then fill with hot tap water, soak awhile, then rinse well and make sure they DRY out, boot drier is great.

Since I tend to wear my booties like 6 hours a day when in the yak, I need to do the bleach thing a few times a year. 

But don't get overzealous with it, too much bleach is one way to prematurely age a suit. It will bleach out the black if used too strong.

For the FJ, I do a good freshwater rinse and hang dry, inside and out, then a mild soap wash once or twice a year or more often, if odor or fish juice gets to be a problem.

This is the way I roll and I love it:  Rinse wetsuit and booties with hose and remove.  Hang wetsuit above Cabela's Maxx dry and connect to dryer tubes; place gloves on the short tubes on the Maxx dry; set timer for 3.5 hrs on auto temp of 97 degrees.  Next, place booties on Cabela's Peet dryer.  It doesn't have a timer, just radiant heat.  On the morning of a trip I turn on both heaters 20'' before I get dressed.  The days of ballshock are over.  Nothing but warm, toasty and dry apparel.